Comment by jb1991
> particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school.
American schools don’t teach it anymore?!
> particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school.
American schools don’t teach it anymore?!
They stopped teaching cursive for a number of years but all the schools in my area start it around age 6 or 7 now. They start typing the next year with some horribly boring typing program.
They started teaching it again because it correlated with better outcomes for things seemingly unrelated to writing. And it was important to learn it before typing supposedly. There is probably some better way to accomplish whatever it is actually doing, but they don't seem to know that.
Not that I can tell, unless you encounter a teacher who (personally) believes it’s worthwhile.
The real problem, IMO, is that they don’t teach cursive but also don’t teach typing. They’ve thrown laptops at the kids without giving them the basic skill necessary to be effective in that medium.